lão hủ
Pronunciation
Northern
/laʔaw˧˥ hṵ˧˩˧/
Central
/laːw˧˩˨ hu˧˩˨/
Southern
/laːw˨˩˦ hu˨˩˦/
Listen
decrepit
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decrepit
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
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decrepit
Describing an old person who is no longer strong or capable of doing useful work.
vi Người lão hủ đó ngồi lặng lẽ bên hiên nhà cả ngày.
en That decrepit old man sat quietly by the porch all day.
Parts
lão / hủ / 老腐
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Parts
lão / hủ / 老腐
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
老腐
Candidates by syllable
lão
老
hủ
腐（朽）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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